Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1887-01-14

laughter w hO has NV wv" Wv
babe, crowned with the age of a
day, smile seraphically as an
angels wing brushed a dream over
it's "Innate ideas ?'-DrummOnd
Burch in courier -JOWndi.
CHEAP PRICES AND DEGRADED LABOR.
Mr.. =. Carroll, of Louisville. Kyr
writes to the Bulletin OF the Iron
and Steel Association as follows {:
ais not the Hon. Carroll ID.
Wright a little mistaken in saying
that 'history has not began to tell
the story of the suffering Of labor
prior to the advent Of the modern
industrial system; it was the dis
graceofnatiOns that such sufierings
existed, and it was pride for their
own honor that caused legislation z"
/ wonder if Mr.. wright has ever
read John Eampden, Jr.'s, History
of the English AristOcracy. Here
is what that historian says Of the
condition of the masses Of the peO-
pie during the long, dark ages when
prices were low and everything
cheap, when the free trade cry 0f
'buy cheap prevailed 'To dig and
TO swelter in hewing and IN groan-
ING under heavy burthens was the
bitter lot of the multitude. To the
few were given all the lands and all
the honOrs of all the nations, and TO
the masses were allotted the slavery
and bondage Of serfdom. Royal
and noble robbers strodc over the
earth and lorded it with the lash
and the dungeon and the halter over
an ignorant, frightened people. So
low, so degraded, was the condition
of the great mass of the people they
maintained that God and his angles
had either fallen asleep or deserted
them
Sir Francis Eden has written
The IIistorp OF the Poor. The no
bic anthor tells us that while
things were bought and sold cheap,
and while there were no 'bloated
capitalists 'the wOrklngmen en-
We'd the beasts Of the field In
Knights History of England (vol.
ume 3, page ~ we are told that
while things are bought and sold
cheap 'the laws consigned the
wOrklngmen to the fetter and the
whip In volume ., page 252,
Knight says that while things were
cheap the poor were cast into pris-
ons, they we're placed in stocks,
they were whipped at the carts
tall, they were hanged in patches
Of tens and twenties at the same
time from the same gallOws.' ]
could fill several numbers of the
Bulletin with extracts from stand
ard histories showing the poverty,
ignorance, the misery, and degra-
dation of labor while things were
bought and sold cheap. History
shows that while things we're
bought and sold cheap the masses
of the people were worse housed
and worse fed than the beasts which
they envied. History also shows
that as prices advanced, the phys
ical, the mental, the moral, the So
cial, and the financial condition of
the farmer, and laborer, and the
mechanic advanced with them.
Let me refer again to Knights
History:
'From 1000 to 1880 prices advanc-
ed 100 per cent, owing to the i'll
crease Of gold and silver. This ad
vance in prices gave an impulse to
production and cultivation, Great
ing a demand for labor, and thus
the workingmen emerge from the
serfdom of ages Volume 3, par. u,
27G.)
1t was not pride for their owl
honor as Mr.. Wright sav =. thai
caused the nations to leg ,islate il
favor of labor; it was II 30 increas,
of the precious metals that did i
all. With every inc rease OF none
there came an inc rease in prices
and with every rIcrease in price
there came MOI. Q and more freedom
and JOY and comfort and happi
ness.
just exactly in proportion a
You redr.ce prices by bringing Il
workiu gmen into competition wit
paupGr labor you force us back int
the condition from which labor has
riSen. Buy cheap Bay cheap
Yes, buy cheap and sink to leve
with those who produce cheap.
think have proved that histo
ry has told the suffering Of Iabo
! when things were produced an,
sold cheap. believe that tn
! workiogmen of the world owe thel
advancement TO the increase i
prices and not to the pride or tli
honor OF nations
:
If You wish to have shoe mad
Y Of durable materials, you shonl
n make the upper leather out of tn
0 mouth of a hard drinker, for thi
a uauor lato In t,ofor